Actually, let me correct myself: They have their own issues in XFree 4.3.0. I'm using 4.3.99 and they work just fine, the builtin Radeon drivers that is. No 3d yet, but 2d is all I really want at this point as nothing is linked against 64-bit 3d libs yet.

Actually, let me correct myself: They have their own issues in XFree 4.3.0. I'm using 4.3.99 and they work just fine, the builtin Radeon drivers that is. No 3d yet, but 2d is all I really want at this point as nothing is linked against 64-bit 3d libs yet.

any opengl game you can compile from source will probably work. let's just say, gltron, for example. or the opengl xscreensavers. there's quite a bit that will use opengl if you think about it.

but you're thinking about commercial opengl games, mostly. i think it's just a matter of time before id makes a 64-bit q3a release, even though (afaik) they haven't specifically announced plans to do so.

I'm not a big game fan actually, so 3D Acceleration is not high on my list, of course it would be nice.

This box will be more of a toy, and a dev station (I work on the J2EE platform at work, and want a machine that I can do stuff on at home), and hopefully I can finally move my domain name to it as well.

As for no fancy gui, that's fine, I'm sure I'm dumb enough and ugly enough to stuff it up the first time At least I still will have my WinXP laptop to log on to the net to find out what to do.

This box will be more of a toy, and a dev station (I work on the J2EE platform at work, and want a machine that I can do stuff on at home)

I'm with you there. I almost never play games on my primary workstation -- but I do have another machine (the wife's) that has WinXP (aka "Wintendo") on it, so I jump on that one when I feel like gaming.

Everything else I have is "dangerously dedicated" (that's a FreeBSD term, but as a joke I apply it to any computer I own that is Wintel-free).

Well i have my PC now, and in the process of setting it up. Only problem is that I haven't been able to set up a network to have both the WinXP and my new machine access my DSL. In the end, I opened up the online installation guide on my WinXP and got my new box communicating directly to the DSL modem.

Anyway, I decided to name my new PC "Deep Thought" since my WinXP is called "Marvin" (can you tell I love Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy?)